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Sunday August 2, 12pm (PDT) — talks by jimrandomh, johnswenthworth, Daniel Filan, Jacobian

Bird Concept and Ben Pace

Jul 30, 2020, 11:55 PM

15 points

2 comments1 min readLW link

Dealing with Curiosity-Stoppers

adamShimiJul 30, 2020, 10:05 PM

50 points

6 comments10 min readLW link

[Question] What if memes are common in highly capable minds?

Daniel KokotajloJul 30, 2020, 8:45 PM

40 points

13 comments2 min readLW link

PSA: Tagging is Awesome

abramdemskiJul 30, 2020, 5:52 PM

76 points

19 comments1 min readLW link

Covid 7/30: Whack a Mole

ZviJul 30, 2020, 3:50 PM

39 points

4 comments10 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

[Question] Is the work on AI alignment relevant to GPT?

Richard_KennawayJul 30, 2020, 12:23 PM

24 points

5 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Would a halfway copied brain emulation be at risk of having different values/identity?

GhatanathoahJul 30, 2020, 5:43 AM

9 points

8 comments2 min readLW link

Rationalist Reading Group (Online)

NoSignalNoNoiseJul 30, 2020, 2:14 AM

7 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Attention is your scarcest resource

benkuhnJul 30, 2020, 1:00 AM

98 points

2 comments4 min readLW link

(www.benkuhn.net)

Learning the prior and generalization

evhubJul 29, 2020, 10:49 PM

34 points

16 comments4 min readLW link

What Failure Looks Like: Distilling the Discussion

Ben PaceJul 29, 2020, 9:49 PM

82 points

14 comments7 min readLW link

New Paper on Herd Immunity Thresholds

ZviJul 29, 2020, 8:50 PM

41 points

16 comments9 min readLW link

(thezvi.wordpress.com)

What a 20-year-lead in military tech might look like

Daniel KokotajloJul 29, 2020, 8:10 PM

78 points

59 comments16 min readLW link

Engaging Seriously with Short Timelines

sapphireJul 29, 2020, 7:21 PM

43 points

21 comments3 min readLW link

[AN #110]: Learning features from human feedback to enable reward learning

Rohin ShahJul 29, 2020, 5:20 PM

13 points

2 comments10 min readLW link

(mailchi.mp)

The “best predictor is malicious optimiser” problem

Donald HobsonJul 29, 2020, 11:49 AM

14 points

10 comments2 min readLW link

Improving local governance in fragile states—practical lessons from the field

Tim LiptrotJul 29, 2020, 1:54 AM

16 points

3 comments6 min readLW link

Parameters of Privacy

RaemonJul 29, 2020, 1:18 AM

31 points

2 comments6 min readLW link

Predictions for GPT-N

hippkeJul 29, 2020, 1:16 AM

36 points

31 comments1 min readLW link

Tagging Open Call / Discussion Thread

RubyJul 28, 2020, 9:58 PM

65 points

118 comments4 min readLW link

Wiki-Tag FAQ

RubyJul 28, 2020, 9:57 PM

39 points

4 comments13 min readLW link

Tags Discussion/Talk Thread

RubyJul 28, 2020, 9:57 PM

30 points

81 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What happens to variance as neural network training is scaled? What does it imply about “lottery tickets”?

abramdemskiJul 28, 2020, 8:22 PM

25 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How will internet forums like LW be able to defend against GPT-style spam?

ChristianKlJul 28, 2020, 8:12 PM

14 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] To what extent are the scaling properties of Transformer networks exceptional?

abramdemskiJul 28, 2020, 8:06 PM

30 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

The Conceited Folly of Certainty

Noah BlaffJul 28, 2020, 7:56 PM

7 points

3 comments20 min readLW link

The Curse of Cursory Idealism

Noah BlaffJul 28, 2020, 7:56 PM

9 points

1 comment3 min readLW link

[Question] Does the lottery ticket hypothesis suggest the scaling hypothesis?

Daniel KokotajloJul 28, 2020, 7:52 PM

14 points

17 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Probability that other architectures will scale as well as Transformers?

Daniel KokotajloJul 28, 2020, 7:36 PM

22 points

4 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How should I back up and redo, in a publicly-edited article?

Jameson QuinnJul 28, 2020, 7:07 PM

7 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

Rereading Atlas Shrugged

VaniverJul 28, 2020, 6:54 PM

174 points

36 comments13 min readLW link 1 review

FHI Report: How Will National Security Considerations Affect Antitrust Decisions in AI? An Examination of Historical Precedents

CullenJul 28, 2020, 6:34 PM

2 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

(www.fhi.ox.ac.uk)

Delegate a Forecast

AmandangoJul 28, 2020, 5:43 PM

44 points

25 comments2 min readLW link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Asset Prices Consistently Violate Efficient Market Hypothesis

LironJul 28, 2020, 2:21 PM

11 points

3 comments1 min readLW link

(lt3000.blogspot.com)

A community-curated repository of interesting GPT-3 stuff

Rudi CJul 28, 2020, 2:16 PM

8 points

0 comments LW link

(github.com)

[Question] Billionaire Economics

Virgil KurkjianJul 28, 2020, 3:01 AM

22 points

31 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What specific dangers arise when asking GPT-N to write an Alignment Forum post?

Matthew BarnettJul 28, 2020, 2:56 AM

46 points

14 comments1 min readLW link

The Future of Science

Richard_NgoJul 28, 2020, 2:43 AM

21 points

2 comments7 min readLW link

Basic Conversational Coordination: Micro-coordination of Intention

Eli TyreJul 27, 2020, 10:41 PM

41 points

7 comments2 min readLW link

[updated] how does gpt2′s training corpus capture internet discussion? not well

nostalgebraistJul 27, 2020, 10:30 PM

25 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

(nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)

AI and Efficiency

DragonGodJul 27, 2020, 8:58 PM

9 points

1 comment1 min readLW link

(openai.com)

The Rise of Commonsense Reasoning

DragonGodJul 27, 2020, 7:01 PM

8 points

0 comments LW link

(www.reddit.com)

Why You Might Want a New Way to Visualize Biases

dtmJul 27, 2020, 5:30 PM

18 points

2 comments3 min readLW link

Are we in an AI overhang?

Andy JonesJul 27, 2020, 12:48 PM

266 points

106 comments4 min readLW link

Generalizing the Power-Seeking Theorems

TurnTroutJul 27, 2020, 12:28 AM

41 points

6 comments4 min readLW link

Change the world a little bit

DirectedEvolutionJul 26, 2020, 10:35 PM

23 points

3 comments2 min readLW link

Developmental Stages of GPTs

orthonormalJul 26, 2020, 10:03 PM

140 points

72 comments7 min readLW link 1 review

The problem of Pop Analogy

thesilvermenJul 26, 2020, 9:44 PM

4 points

0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Where do people discuss doing things with GPT-3?

skybrianJul 26, 2020, 2:31 PM

2 points

7 comments1 min readLW link

Jam is obsolete

jefftkJul 26, 2020, 2:00 PM

25 points

24 comments1 min readLW link

(www.jefftk.com)